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Enhancing color with the Color, Color Toning, and HSL filters

Enhancing color with the Color, Color Toning, and HSL filters - Aurora HDR Tutorial

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Enhancing color with the Color, Color Toning, and HSL filters

- Now lets talk about color. Once you lock down tone, the exposure values, it's a good idea to tackle color and there are several different controls, we have Color, Color Toning and HSL. Let's start with the Color category, here we have global controls over color, we can bring up the overall Saturation or down, similarly, Vibrance is saturation, but a little more selectively, you'll see for example, that it's affecting the blues and greens more than the reds, so in this case, I boosted Vibrance, but toned down Saturation, that really did a nice, subtle job of bringing out some of the colors in the image. Additionally there's Color Contrast and this goes through and looks for areas, where there's minimal saturation, particularly in the sky and starts to push those more for higher contrast, be careful not to overdo it, but if you want a stylized look, this can make it easier to get nice, rich color. If we scroll down a little bit, you'll see that we also have Color Toning, here is where…

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